Posted on October 21, 2026
Italy’s Port of Pesaro has regained €11m ($12.3m) in state funding for infrastructure needed to support dredging operations, reversing an earlier withdrawal of money earmarked for improving access to the Adriatic harbour.
Pesaro’s municipal government confirmed on October 19 that Italy’s Court of Auditors had registered a resolution by the Interministerial Committee for Economic Planning and Sustainable Development (CIPESS), completing the administrative process required to restore the funding.
The money, allocated by the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport, will finance a sediment containment basin needed to accommodate material removed during future dredging operations.
The original allocation was withdrawn earlier this year following delays in the project’s approval procedures. The development has been held back by difficulties surrounding the location and design of the containment facility.
Earlier municipal documents envisaged a smaller basin within the harbour after plans for a larger offshore facility encountered regulatory obstacles.
Those changes require further technical and administrative approvals before construction can proceed. Pesaro forms part of the Central Adriatic Sea Port System Authority’s network of six ports.
The harbour has approximately 1.5 km of quays and supports commercial shipping, fishing, passenger services and vessel repair activities.
The port authority is separately preparing limited dredging works to address sediment accumulation at the harbour entrance and within the basin.Those interim operations are expected to be undertaken before the end of 2026, according to the municipality.
The newly restored funding is intended for the longer-term sediment containment infrastructure rather than the immediate maintenance dredging programme.
No construction contract has been awarded for the containment basin, and the authorities have not announced a completion date.
